Bausznern, Waldemar von

Bausznern, Waldemar von, German composer; b. Berlin, Nov. 29, 1866; d. Potsdam, Aug. 20, 1931. He studied music with Kiel and Bargiel in Berlin. He subsequently was active mainly as a choral conductor. He taught at the Cons, of Cologne (1903–8), at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar (1908–16), where he also served as director, and at the Hoch Cons, in Frankfurt am Main, where he was a teacher and director (1916–23). He also taught at the Academy of Arts and the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin. Among his many works were the operas Dichter und Welt (Weimar, 1897), Durer in Venedig (Weimar, 1901), …